Seven guns seized after felon's arrest

Friday

Jun 21, 2013 at 12:01 AM

STOCKTON - Members of the Stockton Police Department's Community Response Team and the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force arrested a man and confiscated seven guns Wednesday afternoon in south Stockton, authorities said.

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STOCKTON - Members of the Stockton Police Department's Community Response Team and the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force arrested a man and confiscated seven guns Wednesday afternoon in south Stockton, authorities said.

Officers went to a home in the 1900 block of East 9th Street about 4:30 p.m. in search of a Sacramento robbery suspect, police said. When they arrived, a man sitting in front of the home ran away, officers said.

Charlie Lo, 26, was apprehended after discarding a loaded and stolen handgun during a brief foot pursuit, police said. Officers searched the area where Lo was sitting and located a second loaded and stolen handgun, police said. Authorities found five more guns inside the home, including a sawed-off shotgun, officers said.

Lo was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm while on probation, unlawful possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property, authorities said.